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New details about Victoria Roshchina’s imprisonment in a russian detention center: according to a former prisoner with the call sign “Britva,” she tried to cut her veins to get a psychologist. She was repeatedly sent to solitary confinement for “misbehavior.” Guards considered her “noisy”: she demanded a psychologist and asked to see officers. During one refusal, she had a breakdown, tore off a light fixture, and tried to cut her veins with it. Victoria disappeared on August 3, 2023, in the temporarily occupied territories while preparing a report. In May 2024, russia confirmed her captivity, and in October it became known that she died during transfer from Taganrog to Moscow — shortly before a planned exchange. Her body showed signs of torture, and some organs were missing. This is what so-called russian ‘justice’ is: pure torture and abuse.

Today marks two years since Russia committed a mass murder of Ukrainian prisoners in Olenivka. On the night of July 29th, 2022, a powerful explosion sounded in one of the barracks in Olenivka in Donetsk region, a Russian-occupied penal colony where Ukrainian prisoners of war were kept. As of now, we know that over 50 Ukrainian prisoners died from the explosion, over 140 were injured. (data by Ukrainian General Prosecutor's office as of July 25, 2024). Investigation continues. It is very complicated, as Ukraine and other international organizations did not have and do not have access to the crime scene. Olenivka was a filtration site for Ukrainian prisoners of war who left Azovstal. In the morning of July 27, 2022, Russian guards brought a group of prisoners to an industrial zone. People were brought to a building with no facilities and a tin roof: there were beds without mattresses there. On July 28, prisoners were not allowed to come outside. Explosions on the territory of the colony took place between 10 pm on July 28th and 1 am July 29th. According to accounts of survivors, Russians started to take away the injured only after six hours. Before that, even more people died from pain shock and blood loss. The next day, survivors were isolated from the rest of the prisoners in the colony. Right after the Russian act of terror in Olenivka, the UN created a special commission to investigate this war crime. But Russians did not allow anyone to the site of the tragedy. Negotiations about access lasted a long time and led to nothing. The commission was dismissed on January 5th, 2023, and has not visited Ukraine in the end. Ukraine continues the investigation and prepares materials for international courts and tribunals. Russia must be punished.